Typhoon

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By Aubrey Belford ORMOC, Philippines, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Philippine engineers have salvaged generators from a flooded IT park to bring light back to some streets of typhoon-devastated Leyte province, the Energy Ministry said on Monday, as the World Bank offered a $500 million loan for rebuilding. Night falls early in the tropical Philippines, one of the biggest challenges in ensuring security on the worst-hit island of Leyte, where an estimated 70 to 80 percent of structures in the path of the Nov. 8 storm were reduced to matchwood and rubble.

By Manuel Mogato MANILA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The Philippines will divide up the typhoon-ravaged central Visayas between countries to maximise relief efforts, a senior officer said, as President Benigno Aquino won guarded praise for improving aid distribution 11 days after the storm hit. But the country is still struggling to get aid to devastated areas due to the extent of the destruction, which has left four million people displaced,...

(Reuters) - Top Australian golfer Jason Day says he is "devastated" that several members of his extended family were among the thousands killed by the typhoon that ripped through the Philippines last week. "I am deeply saddened to confirm that multiple members of my family lost their lives as the victims of Typhoon Haiyan," Day, whose mother Denning is Filipino, said in a statement on Sunday. "My family and I are thankful for all who have reached out with their prayers and concern.

A United Methodist bishop from the Philippines urged a Melrose Park congregation Sunday to help the region devastated by Typhoon Haiyan this month. "It will be a long process of rehabilitation," Bishop Ciriaco Francisco told about 40 congregants during his morning sermon at the Cosmopolitan United Methodist Church. "We have to reconstruct their communities, their lives. " As of Sunday, the official death toll in the Philippines was 3,681, with more than 1,100 others missing as a result of the storm.

Seventeen Opportunity International employees in the Philippines were unaccounted for as of Thursday afternoon, CEO Vicki Escarra said. Earlier in the week the number was 40. There have been no confirmed deaths of employees at the Oak Brook-based microfinance lender. But about 1,000 of Escarra's workers have lost their homes to Typhoon Haiyan. And three financial institutions that Opportunity owns there have lost four buildings. Crisis management is not new to Escarra.

A Chicago group collecting goods for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has turned to the Illinois Air National Guard for help after donations far exceeded what organizers had expected. In four days, Help for Haiyan Chicago collected 5,000 boxes of food, clothing, medical supplies and other goods at the Rizal Center, a Philippine community center on the North Side, said Rose Tibayan, a co-organizer of the drive. "We weren't expecting that. We only thought we would get a couple hundred boxes," Tibayan said.

MANILA (Reuters) - Two days before one of the world's most powerful typhoons rammed into the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino had a simple but ambitious target for all government agencies: zero casualties. Fast-forward a week: thousands are dead, anger is growing over the slow relief effort and Aquino's once-unassailable popularity is under threat - along with the reforms that have helped transform the Philippines into one of Asia's fastest-growing and hottest emerging economies.

* Aquino under mounting pressure over aid distribution * Relief efforts pick up with arrival of U.S. aircraft carrier * "We are very, very worried about millions of children"-UNICEF By Aubrey Belford TACLOBAN, Philippines, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Survivors began rebuilding homes destroyed by one of the world's most powerful typhoons and emergency supplies flowed into ravaged Philippine islands, as the United Nations more than doubled its estimate of people made homeless to nearly two million.